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2011 Boggess Finalists

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

The William R. Boggess Award is given to the author or authors of the paper, published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association during the preceding year, that best describes, delineates, or analyzes a major problem or aspect of water resources from either a theoretical, applied, or philosophical standpoint. Established in 1973, the Award honors William R. “Randy” Boggess, a member of AWRA, one of the first Directors, and a former President of the Association, who has also made significant contributions to AWRA as an Editor of JAWRA.

The winner is selected by the JAWRA Editor and Associate Editors, and announced by the AWRA President. In past years, we’ve reported only the winner. Often, this left several fine papers on the cutting room floor, so to speak. So, we decided to do something different this year and announce all papers reaching the final rounds. This year we have four excellent papers under consideration. Congratulations to all our finalists!

Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Riparian Zones: Potential for Improved Water Quality Management, by Philippe Vidon, Craig Allan, Douglas Burns, Tim P. Duval, Noel Gurwick, Shreeram Inamdar, Richard Lowrance, Judy Okay, Durelle Scott, and Steve Sebestyen, Volume 46, Issue 2, pages 278–298, April 2010

Future U.S. Water Consumption: The Role of Energy Production, by Deborah Elcock, Volume 46, Issue 3, pages 447–460, June 2010

Sources of Suspended-Sediment Flux in Streams of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: A Regional Application of the SPARROW Model, by John W. Brakebill, Scott W. Ator, and Gregory E. Schwarz, Volume 46, Issue 4, pages 757–776, August 2010

Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS), with an Application to Chesapeake Bay River Inputs, by Robert M. Hirsch, Douglas L. Moyer, and Stacey A. Archfield, Volume 46, Issue 5, pages 857–880, October 2010

2010 Boggess Award

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

AWRA President Ari M. Michelsen has announced the winners of the 2010 Boggess Award: Lauren A. Patterson and Martin W. Doyle, of the University of North Carolina. Their paper, “Assessing Effectiveness of National Flood Policy Through Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Socioeconomic Exposure,” was published in the February 2009 issue of JAWRA. The award will be presented at the luncheon of the AWRA 2010 Annual Conference, this November in Philadelphia. Congratulations to both authors!

The authors found a significant increase in flood exposure immediately outside the 100-year floodplain throughout North Carolina. As a result of this unintended consequence of national flood policy, any flood even slightly higher than the 100-year flood will have a disproportionately large impact, since development is outside the legal boundary of national flood policy.

The William R. Boggess Award is given to the author or authors of the paper, published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association during the preceding year, that best describes, delineates, or analyzes a major problem or aspect of water resources from either a theoretical, applied, or philosophical standpoint. Established in 1973, the Award honors William R. “Randy” Boggess, a member of AWRA, one of the first Directors, and a former President of the Association, who has also made significant contributions to AWRA as an Editor of JAWRA.